Cultural Center TRAKART
With 500 sq meters exhibition area
Represent ancient mosaics /dating from the 4th-5th centuries/ covering 160 sq meters of space and preserved in situ. The residential building Eirene /EIPHNH/
In September 2003 Trakаrt 2000 Foundation started a project for conservation and restoration of antique mosaic in EIPHNH building. For the restoration of this work of art the Foundation received grant from the US Ambassador's Fund for cultural preservation. The project is being implemented in close cooperation with the Municipality of Plovdiv and the Plovdiv Museum of Archaeology and was completed in May 2004.
On May 24th 2004 was open a gallery-museum for exposition and maintains of antique and contemporary mosaics - Cultural Center Trakart in the pedestrian underpass Archaeological, situated in the contemporary center of the city of Plovdiv on the south side of the Tunnel.
Cultural Center Trakart is a representative public area of "Trakart 2000" Foundation – an organization with public interest for realization of socially useful activity and “Art Center” – Plovdiv.The "Art Centre" and "Trakart 2000" work in the field of saving the cultural heritage, protection and revival of applied arts and traditional artistic crafts, teaching children and young people who have the wish, possibilities and talent in the sphere of plastic arts.
Cultural Center Trakart was officially open on 24th May 2004 when FORUM’s 14th General Assembly was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
The ancient residential house Eirene was open to visitors on May 28th, 2004. There will be a perfect synthesis on display of antique mosaics (dating from the 4th-5th centuries) from the ancient city of Pilippopolis, covering 160 sq m meters of space and preserved in situ, a sample of mosaics from the collection of the Archaeological Museum of the city of Plovdiv, as well as contemporary art works.
All these exhibits are shown at the Cultural Center TRAKART, located in the pedestrian underpass Archaeological, in the city of Plovdiv.

The site is easy accessible, there is convenient parking space in the neighborhood (the parking of the Catholic cathedral of St. Ludvig), on the south side of the Tunnel.
The EIPHNH residential building - /4th century AD/ is a cultural monument of national and of world importance. The peristyle residential building with floor mosaics is one of the best in ancient Pilippopolis.
The mosaic, inlaid in the floor of the great central hall of the residential building Eirene, and featuring a female portrait with the inscription EIPHNH, dates from 4th – 5th centuries. It contains geometric, vegetal, and figured images, executed in a rich gamma of colours and hues. In the rectangular space, two compositions are distinguished by squares, with a circle inserted in each square, and an image inside each circle.
In the center there is a hexagon, with a female image inside it, executed in opus vermiculatum, and the inscription EIPHNH, surrounded by six squares with triangles among them. There is also a wide dividing band between the two squares. The band contains a black-and-white rhomboid grille of a simple inclined swastika -meander. Over the northern square mosaic panel, located over the water drain, an eight-walled marble structure (fountain) was added. North of it (seen from the entrance) a greeting inscription is inserted in the mosaic.
In the western central square a circle is inserted, which contains a big polychromatic rosette, filled with small triangles. In the center of the rosette there is a cantaros vase inside a small round medallion.